Nine out of ten leading causes of death were below average in June – or were they just wrongly attributed to covid?

On the 17th July the Office for National Statistics published this astonishing chart :^[1]

The Daily Mail were quick to point out that in June, covid was the third most significant cause of death ^[2] but no one seems to have drawn much attention to the most startling aspect of the new data:

In June all the normal leading causes of death were killing significantly fewer people than the five year average.

Are all the causes of death magically declining while covid grows?

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